The Ledgers of Merit and Demerit : Social Change and Moral Order in Late Imperial China.

The ledgers of merit and demerit were a type of morality book that achieved sudden and widespread popularity in China during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Consisting of lists of good and bad deeds, each assigned a certain number of merit or demerit points, the ledgers offered the hope of...

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Hlavní autor: Brokaw, Cynthia Joanne
Médium: Licensed eBooks
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Princeton : Princeton University Press 2014.
Edice:Princeton legacy library.
On-line přístup:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt7ztpxw